Description Serpentine Pavillion 2005:

‘The temporary pavilion has become unmissable, a rare opportunity to
view the work of the finest international architects at first hand.
This is how architecture should be exhibited and remembered. See it,
and Siza’s exquisite space will stay with you’. Financial Times

In
designing the Pavilion, Siza sought to ‘guarantee that the new building
– while presenting a totally different architecture – established a
“dialogue” with the Neo-classical house’.

The result was a structure that mirrored the domestic scale of the
Serpentine and articulated the landscape between the two buildings. The
Pavilion was based on a simple rectangular grid, which was distorted to
create a dynamic curvaceous form. It comprised interlocking timber
beams, a material that accentuated the relationship between the
Pavilion and surrounding Park.